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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Motivation is an Inside Job!

Motivation is really an inside job! Every once in a while
you will feel destroyed and completely worthless. That’s when you must draw from
your inner reservoir of happiness and reenergize yourself.

Feel happy? When you are sad, down and out? How is that
possible, you may well wonder?

Well, take, for instance, the most horrifying, saddest
moment of your Life thus far and ask yourself how could you ever have made the
situation any better by brooding over it? You cannot get rid of sadness,
suffering and agony with more sadness, more suffering and more agony. You
cannot rid yourself of any feeling that debilitates you by being sad that it (the
feeling) exists. You can only change your current realities by connecting with
your inner joy, by being happy.

In any tough situation, obviously one that you dislike, a
good starting point is to ask how you are feeling. Replace that feeling with a
sense of acceptance over how things are. If you are having a break up and are grieving
over it, accept that it is over and done with. If you are having a health
challenge, begin by accepting the prognosis. If you have lost heavily in
business, accept that you goofed up, that the money is gone! Of course, the
situations you choose to accept may have never been what you want them to be.
Yet there is no denying that they are the way they are! It is only when you
accept Life for what it is, will happiness flower inside you. Until then
happiness will seem elusive. It may even seem bizarre. That till you accept a
situation, you have poor self-esteem, feel self-pity, brood and feel intensely low.
And the moment you accept, you feel peaceful, are flooded with a new, positive
energy and are willing to give Life one more chance!

That’s really how you motivate yourself in tough times. External
reference points can only be inspirations. But for something to happen to you,
it must first happen from within you!

Zig Ziglar

One
of the greatest champions of re-energizing oneself Zig Ziglar, died a few hours
ago in Texas, USA. He was 86. All his Life he exhorted people to accept, to
appreciate and to find opportunities by being happy with what they have. He often
told a story about a woman in Alabama who he said was bitter about her job and
angry with her co-workers. He advised her to write down whatever positives she
could think of — the solid paycheck, the benefits, the vacation time — and then
stare into the mirror and say how much she loved her job. Six weeks later, he
said, he ran into her again. “I’m doing wonderfully well,” she told him with a bright
smile, adding, “You cannot believe how much those people down there have
changed.” Ziglar would also always remind us that ‘failure is an event and
never a person’. The import being simply that we may fail with many things and
many times in our Life but each time we can bounce back by being happy with
ourselves!

Being happy
does not mean that sadness will not strike you. It may well when things don’t
go per your own plan. But it will not affect you anymore. Being happy is the
ability to celebrate what you have, despite your circumstances, rather than
agonize over what you don’t have. When you choose to be happy, you, naturally,
will be more alive, more motivated to live a fuller, meaningful Life!

So, the antidote
to failure, to unmet expectations, is to motivate ourselves to believe, to try
again and keep doing this__as long as we must__till we get the results that we
want!